Use these websites to search Indian census schedules, removal rolls, photos, land records and more.

Tracing your American Indian ancestors can be tricky. Tribes rarely kept written records, Americanized names often usurped traditional ones, and light-skinned American Indians may have been documented as white. Most records, such as the Dawes Rolls, stem from tribal removals, land grants and other attempts to assimilate Indians. These records mostly cover the Five Civilized Tribes -- the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole -- during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But proving your tribal ties isn't impossible; you just need to know where to look. Use these websites to search Indian census schedules, removal rolls, photos, land records and more.

Content: Dawes Rolls database includes more than 100,000 names of people in the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898 to 1914. An index search reveals blood degree and census card number, to order additional records.

Tips: If you don't know an ancestor's tribe, use the 1900 census. The ancestor may be in Indian schedules or living near, but not with, his tribe.

Content: Search the 1890 Oklahoma territorial census, applications for enrollment in the Five Civilized Tribes, land lottery records, Smith's First Directory of Oklahoma and school reports from Dawes Commission records.

Tips: Last names listed in all capital letters denote residents of Indian territory in Smith's First Directory of Oklahoma.

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